Task – Answer the following question. Open a news source and practically every day, we read accounts and view video footage and photographs unspeakable natural and human-made calamities. Where is God and why does God not avert at least some of the calamities? Note that our text differentiates between natural evils, such as tornadoes, earthquakes, typhoons, etc., from moral evils, which derive from human actions, such as terrorist acts, murders, rapes, torture, car accidents, etc. In this question, we are concerned with natural evils.
Book of Job
C.S. Lewis - Via Anthony Hopkins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNJjsL2tFAY
Summary of Thomas Aquinas’ Five Ways to Prove the Existence of God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBodUcshdFg
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